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Drawn from the unparalleled collection donated to VMFA by preeminent Hasui collectors René and Carolyn Balcer, the exhibition exemplifies the creativity and cultural hybridity Hasui’s work embodies. His art has been embraced by American and Japanese audiences alike for nearly a century.
The René and Carolyn Balcer Collection comprises some 800 works and includes woodblock prints, watercolors, screens, sketches and other works and writings by Hasui. A major exhibit of the collection, Hasui: Water & Shadow , opened at the VMFA in November 2014 and ran until March 2015.
Feb 3, 2024 · This exhibition features Hasui’s preliminary watercolor compositions, along with the resulting woodblock prints published by Watanabe. They are among the hundreds of Hasui works that patrons René and Carolyn Balcer generously donated to VMFA beginning in 2006.
Nov 15, 2014 · The exhibition utilizes the unparalleled collection donated to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by preeminent Hasui collectors, René and Carolyn Balcer.
Nov 16, 2014 · Law & Order showrunner René Balcer on his love of Japanese and Chinese prints and paintings — a collection that can often be seen at America’s top museums
Above the Drowning Sea - Trailer from Rene Balcer on Vimeo. Above the Drowning Sea tells the story of the dramatic escape of European Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Shanghai on the eve of World War II. As Hitler’s forces sought to expel the Jews from Europe, the refugees desperately looked for a way out from what would become the Holocaust.
Feb 27, 2015 · Carolyn Hsu-Balcer and Rene Balcer have given their magnificent collection of hundreds of Hasui’s prints, paintings and printed ephemera to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Spanning the entirety of Hasui’s career, the collection includes rare work made before the great earthquake of 1923 which tragically destroyed ...
